Animales de la Muerte Still Undead

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But it may or may not find its way to WiiWare.

By Daemon Hatfield

Way back in 2008, developer High Voltage Software (The Conduit) announced Animales de la Muerte for WiiWare. A game about kids mowing down zombie animals in a Mexican zoo, it was immediately placed on our "most anticipated WiiWare" list. And then it disappeared. We've had no update in over two years.

Until now!

According to the developers, Animales de la Muerte is still "very much" on the way. During a visit to the IGN office today, High Voltage showed us a more recent video of the game in action. It is still filled with lots of bloody cartoon violence.

"We finally have some bandwidth to put on [Animales de la Muerte] now that we're ramping down on the Conduit 2," said Eric Nofsinger, Chief Creative Officer at High Voltage.

Although it was originally planned for WiiWare, Animales de la Muerte is now being prepped for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and Steam.

"It could very well be for WiiWare, as well," Nofsinger told us. "We did some WiiWare stuff ( Gyrostarr, High Voltage Hot Rod Show) and it did okay. We didn't lose money on any of that. But I would say it wasn't encouraging enough that we would be doing a ton of stuff [on WiiWare]."

We should see more of Animales de la Muerte at the Game Developers Conference next month. For more details from High Voltage (and to listen to us play a secret 3DS game) listen to our interview with High Voltage on this week's Game Scoop! podcast.